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721.
by lsb 17y ago
There's no pricing or Buy button, why?
722.
by lsb 17y ago
I was looking at prices for a small room in Manhattan storage. The price of a room slightly bigger than a double-size mattress is $150/mo, for a pretty central location. YMCA membership for $40/mo for your running water, and bam, an apart
723.
by lsb 17y ago
I agree with edmccaffrey: it's not confusing at all! Here's what I'd like from a redesign of Craigslist: 1. Automatic spelling correction from posting-lingo in Standard English. 2. Automatic stemming of arbitrary description of location
724.
by lsb 17y ago
LZMA is like gzip, but with a much larger window. It's a bit slower to compress, but much better performance.
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Fourier Transforms in Javascript(nklein.com)
9 points by lsb 17y ago|0 comments
726.
by lsb 17y ago
That sounds really cool, you should write it up and submit it.
727.
by lsb 17y ago
"How startups are allocated space" is answered every time by pg when people call YC an incubator.
728.
by lsb 17y ago
Most websites' primary traffic source is search engines, the lion's share of which is Google. Websites that are otherwise are rare, so optimizing your pages to match what people are searching for is pretty important. You can innovate with
729.
by lsb 17y ago
In Joel Spolsky's talk about StackOverflow, he says that one of the 9 key points is that Google is your UI. It sounds that NPR traded a few people paying for transcripts to get many more people discovering npr.org.
730.
by lsb 17y ago
1) They're only charging that because people are paying it. 2) What do you need on your Slicehost VPS that you couldn't just dump onto your home storage device?
731.
by lsb 17y ago
They've also been accused of storing passwords in cleartext: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589852
732.
by lsb 17y ago
Right now we use cheap Asian manual labor for assembling clothing and electronics. This hand looks pretty accurate, anyone able to estimate how much current manual labor is replaceable?
733.
by lsb 17y ago
What are your numbers so far?
734.
by lsb 17y ago
This sounds much like Pandora; is the ruling application to them to?
735.
by lsb 17y ago
But these bouncebacks are predictable, no? There are several key words in them that identify them as bouncebacks, no? So make a spam filter for them, and it'll work great, especially because the mail programs aren't trying to evade spam f
736.
by lsb 17y ago
Sit in on some classes at a nearby university? Watch Feynman's lectures again?
737.
by lsb 17y ago
Luckily, it's not true, as was debunked just a few hours later, and retracted by Mr Dvorak himself!
738.
by lsb 17y ago
Recall that primality testing was proved to be in P, O(n^6) via the AKS primality test, but in practice it's much too slow. So if something interesting is in P, but it's O(n^100), what good is that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primal
739.
by lsb 17y ago
If you can prove it's <2 weeks old, it's just the 10% or 15% unboxing fee.
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by lsb 17y ago
No, I completely agree! I think that, for example, London has been more aggressive in removing the number of cars on the roads; even still, there are traffic jams galore. There was a study about how building more than 3 lanes of highway di
741.
by lsb 17y ago
This assumes that people won't carpool, that people will keep driving their car filled with 1.2 people into downtown/midtown. All you need is a congestion tax, and lots more people will drive only up to (say) Newark to take the Path train
742.
by lsb 17y ago
No, I'm wondering, if you have 100 gays at a bar, what different demographics would add or detract from it. Cause if you have 10 more hot guys, there's nothing stopping them from dancing in a clique unconnected to anyone else, versus 10 la
743.
by lsb 17y ago
As a gay man in Boston, I'd be fascinated if someone revisited those numbers in a queer context: how do things change for bisexuals? Homosexuals? What's the effect of mixed genders in a bar? The common trend seems to just be packing more
744.
by lsb 17y ago
I had a Strida in London. It seemed like one of the best-designed folding bikes around: kevlar belt (instead of a greasy chain), folding and unfolding an A-frame bike took literally 10 seconds. But here's the catch: the tires are all reall
745.
by lsb 17y ago
I know this is flippant, but if you're quite keen to run more than one Ruby web app, why not try ActiveRecord (so you get the Rails ORM) with Sinatra? It's a pretty lightweight solution.
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by lsb 17y ago
There's quite a bit of serendipity on Wikipedia: http://xkcd.com/214/ Almost all Wikipedia articles are within 4 hops of each other. You can open as many tabs as you like, but now you have the choice.
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by lsb 17y ago
A 4GB card at retail, 5 months ago, was $7. How many pictures do you think you'll be taking? 16GB should be plenty of space.
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by lsb 17y ago
PG: I'd really be interested to hear metrics of who's running which browsers on which operating systems when they come to Hacker News.
749.
by lsb 17y ago
For a tipped waitress, not at a fancy place, the federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr.
750.
by lsb 17y ago
Each credit is nominally $0.10. That poorly-drawn giraffe costs $65. Or $15 if you're a first-timer.

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